Ruskin

[ US /ˈɹəskɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. British art critic (1819-1900)
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  • Vienna lectures of 1810 foretoken Ruskin's philippics against railways and factories. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • The one can no more block up the wind-pipes of living dogs and watch their dying convulsions, and the other can no longer lead the minds of youths and maidens to seek and find beauty in the visible world about them and recognise in it the hand of God -- but the world has known which of these men led the youth of Oxford to look up and which to look down, and to-day a merciful oblivion covers the names and doings of this triumphant vivisector and his valiant supporters, while to the farthest inch of the English-speaking realms the writings of Ruskin are treasured in a million homes and his name acclaimed with grateful reverence. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
  • Ruskin's View, of which the poet waxed lyrical in 1816, is worth a visit and takes in the sweep of the river Lune and nearby Calf Top and Crag Hill.
  • Emma Thompson's latest film project – a love triangle featuring the 19th century poet and critic John Ruskin – is reported to have been placed in jeopardy by a New York copyright case.
  • Poverty, pollution, despair, and ill-health — what John Ruskin called illth — is the dark side of capitalism. Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1
  • Back then, young men and women architects working in the spirit of Ruskin and Morris produced a style that still looks convincing a century on, proving that homes for those at the very bottom of the property ladder do not have to be artless.
  • All the projects are part of an experimental partnership between a charity (New Deal of the Mind), the state (the Arts Council and the Department for Work and Pensions) and the private sector (Ixion, a training company owned by Anglia Ruskin University that acts as the financial guarantor). A creative alternative to the dole
  • They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under Complete March Family Trilogy
  • Robert Craft replies: Richard Taruskin, the meticulous scholar I first met eight years ago and through correspondence came to know and like, has lately turned into a sloppy, thersitical journalist, more judgmental than Dr. Johnson. 'Jews and Geniuses': An Exchange
  • The gift comprised other valuable material as well, including Arthur's memoirs, selections from his correspondence with John Ruskin, and letters to Joseph Severn from the Cowden Clarkes, H. Buxton Forman, Fanny Keats de Llanos, Mary Shelley, and Edward Trelawny. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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